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Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.
The disruption of your gut microbiome is a major consequence, and possible cause, of ageing. Columnist Graham Lawton looks into recent trials examining whether it can be replenished through diet and prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics
Article URL: https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges/lift
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Article URL: https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured MACS0329-0211, a massive galaxy cluster whose gravity bends distant light into arcs, curves, and a bright central figure-eight shape.
"I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."
Article URL: https://www.nsf.gov/news/update-ocean-observatories-initiative
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In February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine.
"We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."
Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval stage with external gills like modern frogs or salamanders
An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east
An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east
We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.
Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space.
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/albertas-war-on-rats/
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Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995, remains an essential read for anyone who considers themselves a critical thinker, says Leah Crane
As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe – but that might take longer than we thought
Article URL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost
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Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/seven-perfect-shuffles-randomize-a-deck-of-cards-but-how-many-sloppy-ones-20260617/
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Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
Scientists say 13,000 southern elephant seal pups on Heard Island have died of the H5N1 strain.
Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from Stonehenge, which appears to have been an even older monument for marking the summer solstice
Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from Stonehenge, which appears to have been an even older monument for marking the summer solstice
We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, and now we have the first evidence it prevents deaths too
We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, and now we have the first evidence it prevents deaths too
Article URL: https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=921
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Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.
Article URL: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67784#
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Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may help to preserve them following a stroke